Undercover Cis
Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery
Slate Podcasts
4.4 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 21 February 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Danny Lavery welcomes Sunshine, a Digital Content Producer for the National Birth Equity Collaborative, an organization that fights for the maternal, infant, sexual, and reproductive wellbeing of Black people who can birth.
In a surprise twist on today’s show, Sunshine revealed that they had written a letter which Danny read on our Praise with No Raise episode last year. We recommend checking out Sunshine’s letter from that show (subject: Non-profit Nonsense), and then tuning in to today’s ep to find out how things turned out!
Lavery and Sunshine take on three letters. First, from someone who is wondering how to support a grieving friend who is difficult to be around. Another letter writer is realizing that she doesn’t having much in common with her friend group. A third letter is from someone wondering how to tell their colleague that they’re trans, when the colleague has already assumed they are cis.
Need advice? Send Danny a question here.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening ad-free on Amazon music. |
| 0:03.4 | Just a reminder that Big M. Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery happens twice a week. |
| 0:08.0 | Slate Plus members get an additional mini-episode or Little Big Mood every Friday. |
| 0:12.8 | Sign up now to listen atood, Little Mood. I am your host, Danny M. Lavery, and before I introduce my guest today, I'm very excited about this. I just want to let you know that this may be a first in Big Mood, Little Mood history. My guest today is a former letter writer. And for those of you who are interested in hearing their |
| 0:55.5 | letter before you listen to today's show, I can tell you that it's in episode 54, which we |
| 1:01.7 | published on May 18th back in 2022. And the letter itself is non-profit nonsense. I highly encourage you to go back and listen to that |
| 1:13.0 | episode. It's a real doozy. I encouraged the letter writer to quit their job. And if you would |
| 1:18.3 | like to find out whether or not Sunshine did, in fact, quit that job, you're going to have to |
| 1:22.5 | listen to the end of the episode because I like to withhold information from you. |
| 1:30.0 | With that out of the way, my guest today is Sunshine, a black transmask immigrant from |
| 1:35.7 | Sao Paulo, Brazil, currently living in Durham, North Carolina. |
| 1:39.6 | They're the digital content producer for the National Birth Equity Collaborative, an organization that |
| 1:44.7 | fights for the maternal, infant, sexual, and reproductive well-being of black people. |
| 1:49.7 | Sunshine, welcome to the show. |
| 1:51.5 | Thank you so much. |
| 1:52.3 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 1:53.8 | I'm so excited for you to be here. |
| 1:56.3 | I feel like there's a sort of interesting theme this week that we don't always get to tackle that has |
| 2:01.8 | to do with dealing with other people's relationship to optimism, complaining, venting |
| 2:08.5 | conversations with friends. And it feels really interesting and kind of meaningful to think about |
| 2:14.5 | what are good ways to advise people to both be open-minded and also to |
| 2:19.3 | push for change or change their friendships if they want to. I agree. Yeah, they're super |
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